OS-specific modules to OS-specific packages

Tue Jun 26 15:36:05 EDT 2001

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Alexander Gavrilov wrote:
>     Would it be nice to keep all OS-specific modules of the standard library
> in OS-specific packages? For example, Mac modules  "macdnr", "mactty" and so
> on could be become "mac.dnr", "mac.tty". Windows-specific modules could
> become the part of win32 package: win32._winreg, win32.winsound and so on.
> Unix modules can be separated further to distinguish various flavor of UNIX:
> unix.syslog, unix.fcntl but unix.irix.fl, unix.sunos.sunaudiodev and so on.

   Good idea. Installer may even skip "alien" modules, unless it is shared
installation.

Oleg.
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